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Over this past week, my class has been talking about culture and diversity. Things like ethnicity, race, religion, and traditions are just some of the many things that we have covered. This is an interesting topic for me: I have Jewish parents, one who is Japanese and one that is American. I have been exposed to all three of those cultures, and consider myself both American, and Japanese, as well as Jewish. But one thing that we have not discussed as much is priorities. Now, this is a very vague word to put into this context, so let me explain.

Over this past week, my class has been talking about culture and diversity. Things like ethnicity, race, religion, and traditions are just some of the many things that we have covered. This is an interesting topic for me: I have Jewish parents, one who is Japanese and one that is American. I have been exposed to all three of those cultures, and consider myself both American, and Japanese, as well as Jewish. But one thing that we have not discussed as much is priorities. Now, this is a very vague word to put into this context, so let me explain.

With the new iwatch coming out, there has been a lot of discussion about what affect technology is having on us. This led me to wonder the overall psychological faults that we have caused from our reliance on our devices. The information I found explains how we are changing and its negativity.

The article is an interview with Cody Lundin about preparing for natural disasters.In it includes advice on what to do after an event and how to go about doing it.The article relates to my research because it contains info on how to handle an SHTF event including various info on how to prepare for it. I learned that one way to take care of waste is to use buckets and multiple trash bags with news paper in between the bags.

Charles Swindoll once said, ”We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” This quote means to me that sometimes in life, we are faced with certain situations that may seem difficult or impossible to overcome; but these trials might just be an event that changes our life if we were willing to put all our effort into it. I feel like I can relate a lot to this quote because I am the type of person to just give up when times get tough. I never put my all into something which means I end up letting go of a lot of great opportunities.

Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been about my future. I remember talking about with my mom , but at the time I never research about it. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that people may feel that the future is unexpected. From what I have heard, many people have different opinion about their future,it depends what had happen to them.

Eckhart Tolle, one of the most well known philosophers and New Age author, has arguabley answered many questions that many people if not all, has pondered in their life. One of the questions that he answers is one that has really troubled humanity for many centuries. “ Who am i” is one of those questions that is a challenge for everybody.

I have recently been looking up more information about my question that I will have until Thanksgiving, which is: "Is my outlook on life negative or positive?" I looked up the words optimism and pessimism on Wikipedia in order to get more information about my outlook on life, getting more into both words in ways I never thought I could. I've been truly expanding my mind and the meanings to these words so I can completely understand and see where I fall into place.

Self- Portraits a lot of the time give a different feel then if a portrait was taken of you by someone else. The have different elements put into them and are often taken from a different angle. My self portrait was taken on self-timer with the camera slightly higher then my face to give in an angle. The top of my head was also cropped to give it more of a portrait feel.

Our current goal was to take a self portrait. Before attempting it, I thought that it would be difficult but not a huge challenge. However, once I got my camera out and began to snap pictures of myself, I realized that it was indeed a challenge. Because I was not able to see how the picture looked like through the lens, most of them came out blurry. This picture, however, I felt captured my personality well. Also, I thought that the lighting in the photo was cool.

This is the 10th grade computer class. I see it as a self-portrait beause being a teacher has been my identity for almost 17 years. Although I am an art teacher, I developed a specialty in technology and am often asked to teach computer classes. It just happened that I like to fiddle with computers and make digital art. In this photograph I see the potential in each student for being female leaders on this planet as we move forward. I see the potential for a good future in our society.

First Name:

Nicole

Hi, my name is Nicole Katav and I am 15 years old. I am in the 10th grade and I attend tywls of Astoria. It is an all girl’s school and I have been attending for 5 years. I was born in uptown Manhattan on October 04 1995. I now like in queens. I have a little sister named Shani who is in the 5ht grade. She is 10 years old. I am from two very different countries. My mother is from Dominican Republic and my father is from Israel. Both of them were born and raised in their separate countries. They meet in New York. They worked together in a clothing store that my father had owned with a few of his close friends from Israel. My mom had come to New York after she had gone to college in DR for a few years and my dad had come from Israel after he had finished the army. They fell in love, got married and had kids.

As we are in the middle of the school year we have been using youthvoices since the summer of 2009. What makes a really good post on youthvoices are the ideas and questions so many students on the site are sharing and expressing with other youthvoices members. The fact that students and teachers interact through comments and blogs in practicing our writing and researching skills can be defined in plain and simple english as awesome. By citing our work and proving points to others through discussion posts and essays we can have a feel of what the concerns of youthvoices members are interested about. Especially when there are many comments in discussions and whats ups. Through images and secondary resources we can expand our research skills to better prepare us for college.

First Name:

Perl

Hi wat up M Perl. I love to play basketball, and I love to go on computers. Some people who know me think the know me but they don't there are somethings about me that nobody nows but me. I can be a whole different person when I am out of school, and a whole different person when I am in school. You think you know but you don't.

I am Jonathan Smith,i,m 17 years old and i go to EWSIS. Some of the things that i am into are philosophy,health,medicine,viruses etc. I guess you could say that i am more on the intellectual side. I study the human anatomy A lot. I listen to lots of music and all different types. Anything that euphoric to my ears makes it,s way into my Ipod. I watch A lot of movies,mostly horror and drama. I am the type that likes one on one conversations as oppose to group discussions. Some of my beliefs or views are that we all are here for a purpose and when i say that, i am not talking about career-wise, i mean we all should learn to give to each other when we can and help each other because its not just about doing it because of the benefits but just more for the obligational aspect and the human connection. I feel as though I still have so much to do and i owe people something. I do not want to delve any deeper into this because it would start to get a bit surreal or nutty if you will so yeah thats one of my beliefs. I would say my favorite sport is football.